General Materials Laboratory

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The General Materials Laboratory is one of SASO's laboratories. The laboratory is equipped with the best technologies and modern instruments and provided with excellent specialized technicians with the participation of experts from inside and outside SASO.

Units of General Materials Laboratory

The laboratory consists of 10 units divided according to the nature of tests. Samples are distributed among these units according to the type of testing decided in the product's standard . These units are as follows:

First: Plastics Testing Unit

Plastics Testing Unit has a number of instruments that help verify products' conformity with Saudi standards. They are as follows :

1.Vicat softening point tester

2.Pipes pressure testing machine

3.Plastic pipe samples' notch apparatus

4.Methyl chloride tester

5.Impact tester for plastic pipes and panels

6.Melting flow rate apparatus

7.Density meter

8.Pipes densitometer

9.Light transmittance meter for glass and plastics

10. Scratch tester for plastics

11.Plastics' resistance tester for stress and crack

12.Longitudinal (heat) reversion tester for plastics

13.Melamine grinding machine

14.Apparatus for determining carbon content

15.Carbon dispersion test apparatus

16.Spectrophotometer for the analysis of urea-formaldehyde in melamine

17.Measuring apparatus of the inside and outside diameter of electrical conduits

18.Thermal resistance tester for electrical conduits

19.Activated carbon's volume tester

Second: Environmental Testing Unit

Environmental Testing Unit has a number of instruments that help verify products' conformity with Saudi standards. They are as follows :

1.Humidity tester

2.Accelerated weathering tester

3.Salt spray testing machine

4.Rubber's resistance to Ozone degradation apparatus

5.Heating oven

6.Blast furnace

Third: Furniture Testing Unit

Furniture Testing Unit has a number of instruments that help verify products' conformity with Saudi standards. They are as follows :